Reposted by Cindy Carter
For any Sinology homies who missed it: I have a *very rough* conversion of Hucker for Pleco that is definitely buggy but may make life easier anyway. If you're up for beta-testing, check it out. 🀄📚
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!["It’s not a matter of whether they can do it or not," he answered. "They have no choice but to do it, because a month’s pension won’t even cover the most basic necessities. If they don’t farm, what will they eat? It’s a matter of life and death."
He went on to describe a long list of common health issues he’d seen among the rural elderly: an excess of chronic conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease, arthritis, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Minor ailments go untreated, and major ones are simply endured. When they can’t be endured any longer, you go to hospital; the doctor takes a quick look, and if they say it’s gotten serious, you go home to wait for death. He met a Five Guarantees recipient [food, clothing, medical care, housing, burial expenses] from Zhongjiang, Sichuan last year who cut his toe on a piece of glass. His medical insurance would have covered hospital treatment itself, but he couldn’t afford food or travel costs, so he just cut the toe off with a kitchen cleaver. A living, breathing human treating his own body like expendable parts. Later, he fell ill again, spent two days on an IV drip, and died the day after returning home.
City-dwellers think the rural elderly can live off the land. The reality is they don’t have the physical strength for farm work.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccrabc6xdnjx4l7btvynnng4/bafkreig6l5bajcs4fttrf5v7qrpunupzamni4euqrxmz73s4qa2nn7clay)
